TRENTON — More New Jersey teenagers could start learning sign language under a proposed law that’s set to begin advancing in the Legislature — and not the kind you use to express displeasure to other drivers on the Turnpike.

The bill (S1760), which is scheduled to be heard by the state Senate Education Committee on Thursday, would require high schools to let students fulfill their foreign language graduation requirement by taking sign language courses instead of spoken languages like Spanish or French.

According to the legislation, American sign language “shall be recognized as a world language for the purpose of meeting any State or local world language requirement for high school graduation.”

The state’s high school students are currently required to earn five world language credits — out of 120 total credits total — before they graduate…………..